The Things They Carried, Jane Eyre, anything by Austen, Les Mis, Count of Monte Cristo, War and Peace, Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, Little Women, If Beale Street Could Talk, Their Eyes Were Watching God, To Kill a Mockingbird (until I had to read it for school), Animal Farm (though they didn’t really explain the totalitarianism part in 7th grade when we read it)
Things Fall Apart, Up The Walls of the World, If Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Blade Runner), Americanah (these, Dostoevsky, TTTC, and TEWWG are the only of these I had to read for school) Also Bleak House (haven’t liked any other dickens so far tho) and Middlemarch (haven’t read any other Eliot yet tho)
Well I didn’t really know about totalitarianism in seventh grade as a concept lol so when we read it, we learned about the Russian revolution concurrently so I knew that one of the animals was like Trotsky or whatever but they never fully connected the dots so I was just kind of like “okay napoleon is evil”